 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...books, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. Anttoered by Sir William Browne. THE king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. The Friendly Contest. WHILE Cam and Isis their sad tribute bring Of rival grief, to weep their pious... | |
 | Cambridge tart - 1823 - 318 pages
...king to Cambridge sent a troop of horse, For Tories know no argument but force : With equal skill, to Cambridge books he sent ; For whigs allow no force but argument. AD AMICUM LITAGANTUM. BY THO. RANDOLPH, TRIN. COLL. Would you commence a poet sir, and be A graduate... | |
 | Richard Gooch - 1823 - 310 pages
...king to Cambridge sent a troop of horse, For Tories know no argument but force : With equal skill, to Cambridge books he sent ; For whigs allow no force but argument. AD AMICUM LITAGANTUM. BY THO. RANDOLPH, THIN. COLL. Would you commence a poet sir, and be A graduate... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 pages
...loyalty." But books to Cambridge sent, as well discerning That this right loyal body wanted learning." " The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories...; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For \Vhigs allow no force but argument." ON A WATCH. He that a watch would wear, this he must do : —... | |
 | William Wadd - 1824 - 288 pages
...1774. He was the author of several lively essays and a well-known epigram. " The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument." BRUGIS, THOMAS. A small oval.... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 pages
...That that right loyal body wanted learning. Which, says sir William, might well be answered thus : The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent. For Whigs allow no force but argument. Mr. Johnson did him the justice to say, it was one of the happiest extemporaneous productions he ever... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 pages
...these lines, which Johnson acknowledged to be the happiest extemporaneous production he had ever heard. The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse — For...he sent — For Whigs allow no force but argument. THE HOLYDAY. A QUERY ANSWERED. A gentleman once asked bis ton, " What word in the English language,... | |
 | Charles Henry Hartshorne - 1829 - 592 pages
...To th' other he sent books, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning! THE ANSWER. The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. similar volumes. But the reason seems to have been this: " My lord wanted receipts of Harley before... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - 1829 - 588 pages
...forth the other, from " Sir William Browne, the physician," which should have been given thus : — " The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." See "Biog. Hist." ii. 90, 91.— ED. ) A Concio ad Clerum, continued for some years* A few remain in... | |
 | Charles Henry Hartshorne - 1829 - 590 pages
...To th' other he sent books, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. THE ANSWER. The King to Oxford sent his .troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. The books were received Nov. 19, 20, &c. 1715. similar volumes. But the reason seems to have been this... | |
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The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. 
